Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Mike Ramsey
Wil Reichert gmail.com> writes: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Mike Ramsey > comcast.net> wrote: > > Jaime sanchez gmail.com> writes: > > > >> [snip] > > I seriously doubt Phoronix has anything against btrfs, most likely > quite the opposite. I gave two possibilities, 1. Hatchet jo

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Wil Reichert
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Mike Ramsey wrote: > Jaime sanchez gmail.com> writes: > >> >> They are using 2.6.29.4 kernel, it isn't a bit old?? >> >>  I think that kernel doesn't have the last btrfs updates, and that it >>  is a very bad work and benchmarks results from phoronix part. If u are

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Mike Ramsey
Stephan von Krawczynski ithnet.com> writes: [snip] > > Can someone explain to a quite naive person like me why one should be > interested in SSDs that perform worse than Intel? Why shouldn't I just buy the > best-performing product? This is a moving market, and it is obvious that the > bad perfo

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Mike Ramsey
Jaime sanchez gmail.com> writes: > > They are using 2.6.29.4 kernel, it isn't a bit old?? > > I think that kernel doesn't have the last btrfs updates, and that it > is a very bad work and benchmarks results from phoronix part. If u are > benchmarking an experimental file system benchmark it

Re: Release plan

2009-06-23 Thread Mike Ramsey
Miguel F Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe gmail.com> writes: [snip] > > You mean ZFS, but I think everybody who read this "self-corrected" your typo. Yes, I mean ZFS. ZFS used to be known as the Zettapoint File System. I guess my subconsciousness couldn't let go of the "point". [snip] > > File sy

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Jaime sanchez
My fault then, i thought it was a recent article (the discussion appeared recently on the list) , i read it all except the date. I didn't see it was from 29 may. I apologize. On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:44 PM, nightrow wrote: > If you look here : http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page in t

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread nightrow
If you look here : http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page in the benchmarking section, you will notice that the test was made more than one month ago. I also mentionned, as said by chris on phoronix phorums, that kernel starting from 2.6.30 should be faster. I think we should expect

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Jaime sanchez
They are using 2.6.29.4 kernel, it isn't a bit old?? I think that kernel doesn't have the last btrfs updates, and that it is a very bad work and benchmarks results from phoronix part. If u are benchmarking an experimental filesystem benchmark it with the lastest updaets ¿? it doesn't have sense. -

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Jaime sanchez
They are using 2.6.29.4 kernel, it isn't a bit old?? I think that kernel doesn't have the last btrfs updates, and that it is a very bad work and benchmarks results from phoronix part. If u are benchmarking an experimental filesystem benchmark it with the lastest updaets ¿? it doesn't have sens

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Mason
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:19:35PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:41:23 -0400 > Chris Mason wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:51:41AM +, Mike Ramsey wrote: > > > I ran across this article "Testing Out The SSD Mode In Btrfs". > > > http://www.phoronix.com

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:41:23 -0400 Chris Mason wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:51:41AM +, Mike Ramsey wrote: > > I ran across this article "Testing Out The SSD Mode In Btrfs". > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=btrfs_ssd_mode&num=1 > > > > At first I was disappointed

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Mason
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:53:59PM +0200, Sander wrote: > Chris Mason wrote (ao): > > Jens Axboe tried to reproduce the phoronix results on his ocz drive, > > and generally found that each run was slower than the last regardless > > of which mount options were used. This isn't entirely surprising,

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Sander
Chris Mason wrote (ao): > Jens Axboe tried to reproduce the phoronix results on his ocz drive, > and generally found that each run was slower than the last regardless > of which mount options were used. This isn't entirely surprising, but > it did make it very difficult to nail down good or bad per

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Mason
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:51:41AM +, Mike Ramsey wrote: > I ran across this article "Testing Out The SSD Mode In Btrfs". > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=btrfs_ssd_mode&num=1 > > At first I was disappointed. It gave a very disappointing set of benchmarks. > However, a cl

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-23 Thread Miguel F Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Mike Ramsey wrote: > I ran across this article "Testing Out The SSD Mode In Btrfs". > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=btrfs_ssd_mode&num=1 > > At first I was disappointed.  It gave a very disappointing set of benchmarks. > However, a close reading

Re: Release plan

2009-06-23 Thread Miguel F Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe
Hi there, On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Mike Ramsey wrote: > > I was looking at file systems for Linux, Ubuntu in particular.  I really like > Sun's ZPF.  ZPF's copy-on-write transaction model strikes me as the correct > way to go.  But ZPF lacks a GNU General Public License which blocks ZPF's